Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The bar chart below shows the average number of hours that women in various age groups and women with varying levels of education spend on primary activities each week.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Average hours per week women spent in selected primary activities, by age and educational attainment, 2009

Student answer (Band 7.0)

The bar chart illustrates the average weekly hours that women spent on three primary activities-working, leisure/sports, and household tasks-in 2009, broken down by age group and level of educational attainment.

Overall, the youngest and oldest age groups, as well as for women with lower level of education spent the most of time on leisure activities. On the other hand, women aged 25 to 54 and those with higher education spent more time working.

Among the categories, women aged 75 and over spent the most time on leisure ans sports (51.7 hours per week), whereas those aged 65 to 74 followed closely at 44.0 hours. Work related hours were highest for womens aged 25 to 34 (27.0 hours) and 45 to 54 (27.3 hours), while falling to a low of 1.3 hours for those 75 and over. Householdduties remained relatively stable across most adult age groups, ranging between 16 and 21 hours per week.

Regarding educational qualifications among women aged 25 and over, individuals with the bachelor's and higher recorded the significant employment hours (27.4 hours) and the lowest leisure time (28.6 hours). In contrast, women with less than a high school doploma allocated 43.1 hours weekly on leisure and sports, but only 10.7 hours to working activities.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

The response selects several important features and supports them with relevant figures: the 75-and-over group records the most leisure time (51.7 hours), while women with bachelor’s degrees or higher have the highest work figure (27.4) and lowest leisure figure (28.6). The overview also identifies the broad contrast between leisure and work across age and education groups. However, there are a few inaccuracies: work for ages 45–54 is 27.0 hours, not 27.3, and the claim that household hours range from 16 to 21 across “most adult age groups” overlooks the lower figures for younger women. The overview’s wording about lower education is also broad, since the chart shows this pattern for the education categories, not all women. More precise comparisons would strengthen an otherwise well-supported summary.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.5

The response is organised effectively into an introduction, an overview, an age-based paragraph and an education-based paragraph. This gives the reader a clear progression through the chart, and transitions such as “Overall,” “Among the categories,” and “Regarding educational qualifications” help signal each stage. Comparisons are generally easy to follow, particularly the contrast between the highest and lowest leisure or work figures. Some links between claims could be more explicit: the household-hours sentence is added without explaining how its trend compares with the other activities, and the overview combines age and education patterns in a slightly compressed way. A clearer separation of the two groupings in the overview, followed by more deliberate comparisons within each paragraph, would make the progression even smoother.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

There is a useful range of task-appropriate vocabulary, including “broken down by,” “allocated,” “recorded,” and “ranging between,” which helps describe categories and comparisons. The response also uses relevant activity labels and avoids excessive repetition. However, several word-choice, collocation and spelling slips reduce precision: “spent the most of time” is awkward, “the significant employment hours” is not a natural way to describe the highest figure, and “ans,” “womens,” “Householdduties,” and “doploma” contain spelling or spacing errors. “Employment hours” also risks suggesting paid employment only, whereas the chart labels the category as working and work-related activities. More accurate collocations and careful proofreading would build on the adequate range already shown.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 7.0

The response uses a mix of sentence forms, including a clear introductory clause (“broken down by age group and level of educational attainment”) and comparative structures such as “whereas” and “In contrast.” Most sentences communicate the intended meaning, and the paragraphing supports readability. Some grammatical control is less secure, especially in the overview: “the youngest and oldest age groups, as well as for women with lower level of education spent…” has a faulty construction and lacks a clear subject for the verb. The phrase “women with the bachelor's and higher recorded” also has an incomplete noun phrase, while “the most time on leisure ans sports” contains a punctuation/typing slip that interrupts the sentence. Revising these constructions and checking agreement and articles would make the varied structures more consistently accurate.

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